"Curiosities of Literature: 2d series and his "Literary character".W. Pearson & Company, 1835 |
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... writing , were it now moulded even by the hand of the Raphael of Essayists , would fail in the attraction of novelty ; Mo- rality would now in vain repeat its counsels in a fugitive page , and Manners now offer but little variety to ...
... writing , were it now moulded even by the hand of the Raphael of Essayists , would fail in the attraction of novelty ; Mo- rality would now in vain repeat its counsels in a fugitive page , and Manners now offer but little variety to ...
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... writers of every literary people ; and al- though Latin and Greek were long characterized as the learned languages , ' yet we cannot in truth any longer con- cede that those are the most learned who are inter Græ- cos Græcissimi , inter ...
... writers of every literary people ; and al- though Latin and Greek were long characterized as the learned languages , ' yet we cannot in truth any longer con- cede that those are the most learned who are inter Græ- cos Græcissimi , inter ...
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... writers curiously , not elegantly ; and there is reason to suspect that he had en- tirely neglected the Greek . Even the erudition of antiquity usually reached him by the ready medium of some German Commentator . His multifarious ...
... writers curiously , not elegantly ; and there is reason to suspect that he had en- tirely neglected the Greek . Even the erudition of antiquity usually reached him by the ready medium of some German Commentator . His multifarious ...
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... writing the Critical Dictionary ; a work which should have been composed not distant from the shelves of a public library . Men of classical attainments , who are studying about twenty authors , and chiefly for their style , can form no ...
... writing the Critical Dictionary ; a work which should have been composed not distant from the shelves of a public library . Men of classical attainments , who are studying about twenty authors , and chiefly for their style , can form no ...
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... writing than that of the prevalent fashion of giving thoughts and maxims , and fanciful characters , and idle ... writer , will be still open to the fatal objection of insane industry raging with a depraved appetite for trash and cinders ...
... writing than that of the prevalent fashion of giving thoughts and maxims , and fanciful characters , and idle ... writer , will be still open to the fatal objection of insane industry raging with a depraved appetite for trash and cinders ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 243 - Western nations at the close of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Página 19 - Though thy slumber may be deep, Yet thy spirit shall not sleep, There are shades which will not vanish, There are thoughts thou canst not banish ; By a power to thee unknown, Thou canst never be alone ; Thou art wrapt as with a shroud, Thou art gathered in a cloud ; And for ever shalt thou dwell In the spirit of this spell.
Página 301 - Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon. My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.
Página 82 - ... due observation, I have found that if the murders and manslaughters, the burglaries and robberies, the riots and tumults, the adulteries, fornications, rapes, and other enormities that have happened in that time, were divided into five parts, four of them have been the issues and product of excessive drinking — of tavern or ale-house drinking.
Página 52 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Página 321 - No, Sir, let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Página 47 - I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light.
Página 23 - Scotland, purchased these lands from the titular, and therefore that the present prosecution was groundless. But, after an industrious search among his father's papers, an investigation of the public records, and a careful inquiry among all persons who had transacted law business for his father, no evidence could be recovered to support his defence.
Página 18 - Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also, into which the enormous population of Asia has always been cast, give a further sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names or images. In China, over and above what it has in common with the rest of southern...
Página 407 - my history will not be long : the life that is devoted to knowledge passes silently away, and is very little diversified by events. To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of a scholar. He wanders about the world without pomp or terror, and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself.